The Drawing of Stonemaybe [Dark Tower spoilers]

Avatar · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject:

I think they're more closely related to each other than Latin and English.

It's emphasis seems to change across the series though...when Roland challenges Cort in book one, it's just a very formal "thee and thou" type of speech. Only later do the "Latin" aspects of it come to the fore.

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Stone Magnet · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:23 am Post subject:

^Yea true. High speech is still comprehensible to us, at least it is when Kings writing it. But then, he could be translating it for us when Roland and Cort are speaking (merely adding the quantifier "in the High Speech"), and then when Roland's speaking to Eddie/Susannah etc, he speaks Low Speech, but smatterings of High Speech creep in there. Its been awhile since I've read the series so I'm not sure about this "translation" explanation though. I think the Olde English/English comparison is a better one.
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Avatar · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:16 am Post subject:

Yeah, probably better than the Latin/English comparison.

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stonemaybe · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:38 am Post subject:

I got the impression (and as i said, there was one bit that gave me that impression, that I can't remember now!) that it was proper english/ slang english.
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Kaydene · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject:

Or maybe like the Celtic and Welsh languages. Spoken by people who want to hang on to that history with pride, but forgotten by many.

I wish I could speak Celtic. /sigh.
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stonemaybe · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:27 pm Post subject:

I just found this in WaG

Menolly · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:05 pm Post subject:

stonemaybe · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:42 am Post subject:

D'oh!

Thanks Menolly, and Stone magnet!
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stonemaybe · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:01 pm Post subject:

One thing that's made me smile throughout Wizards and Glass, is the speech patterns of the locals.

It is lifted from my part of the world - Derry and Donegal in Ireland, so it is. England has driven it out of my every day speech, so it has, but I still consider it my accent, so i do. Laughing

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stonemaybe · Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject:

Well that's Wizards and Glass finished.

I enjoyed it, though not as much as Drawing. The whole melding fantasy and Western idea is a good one, I think, and this book is where it's done best so far.

There always seems to be a 'but' though! I really thought the bit with Roland Eddie etc in the alternative Kansas was nonsense! The Wizard of Oz bit came from nowhere (hmm I've made that criticism before) and it went nowhere either! And again, Mr Flagg proved disappointingly ineffective as a bad guy.

Salem's Lot next. This is gonna take a bit of strength. i caught a glimpse of the film as a kid, and that bit with the vampire floating outside the kid's bedroom knocking on the window freaked me out, and has stayed with me ever since!
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Menolly · Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject:

Stone Magnet · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:32 am Post subject:

Salem's Lot is excellent. You will not be disappointed. Well, maybe its too short haha.
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Druids gather at the circle of stones,
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In the glow of a dying red sun,
Their rites of evil have only just begun...

Electric Wizard - Black Butterfly

stonemaybe · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:29 pm Post subject:

Grrr. Enforced break to the series.

I was getting into Salem's Lot - couple of people had been bitten, but the storyline hadn't yet emerged. Took it on a stag weekend to Scotland, plane was delayed so we spent longer than expected in airport bar, took it out in plane and managed to leave it behind.

Can't wait without reading for a new copy to arrive so I've had to start something else.
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Stone Magnet · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:41 am Post subject:

Hate to play the Devils Advocate here but...pirated Ebook? Anyway, I read Salems Lot AFTER Wolves of the Calla, and I turned out alright. Razz

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In the glow of a dying red sun,
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Electric Wizard - Black Butterfly

Avatar · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:17 pm Post subject:

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stonemaybe · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject:

Menolly · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject:

Warmark · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject:

Raphaelus the Younger · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:58 am Post subject:

^ Cheeky!